Invention and Economic Growth / / Jacob Schmookler.

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• VerfasserIn: Schmookler, Jacob,
• MitwirkendeR: Bruschke, Heinrich H.,; Darzins, A. Luis,; Feller, Irwin,; Gidwani, Sushila J.,; Olson, Allan L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 2nd printing 1976. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 27 charts, 49 tables

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• The setting of the problem
• Patent statistics
• The role of intellectual stimuli
• The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions
• Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand?
• The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of time series
• The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of cross sections
• The sources of invention and the changing state of knowledge
• The role of demand in consumer goods invention
• On the "Inevitability" of individual inventions
• Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix A: Statistical Appendix
• Appendix B: Inventors Past and Present
• Appendix C: Important inventions in the Railroad Industry
• Appendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture
• Appendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry
• Appendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry
• Index